Rachel D. Gebaide, Morey Raiskin & Abood Shebib Under new legislation passed by Congress last week, an employee, despite having signed an agreement with their employer to arbitrate all claims prior to the existence of…
By Rachel D. Gebaide, Morey Raiskin & Abood Shebib Large Employer Vaccine-or-Test Mandate In a 6-3 decision, the United States Supreme Court today issued a temporary stay of the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring…
OSHA’s vaccinate or test mandate for large employers (the “ETS”) is set to remain stayed through the first deadline, today, December 6, 2021. That first deadline would have required employers with 100 or more employees…
This afternoon, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation announced it had randomly selected the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal to hear the consolidated challenges to the OSHA emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) requiring large private employers…
This afternoon, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its second stay against OSHA’s emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) requiring large private employers to “vaccinate or test” their employees (the ETS is summarized here). The ETS,…
As you’ve likely heard by now, OSHA fulfilled the task assigned to it by the Biden Administration by publishing a new emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) targeted at private employers with 100 or more employees. We…
Late in the afternoon on October 11, 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued Executive Order GA 40 prohibiting “any entity,” including private employers, from requiring any individual, whether an employee or a consumer, receive a…
By: Rachel D. Gebaide, Morey Raiskin and Abood Shebib Hurricane season is only half over, with Hurricane Ida leaving a trail of damage across Louisiana and beyond, and Hurricane Larry swirling in the Atlantic Ocean,…
BY: RACHEL D. GEBAIDE & TIMOTHY C. HAUGHEE DECEMBER 11, 2014 In a highly-anticipated employment law case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that time spent by employees who undergo employer-required post-shift security screenings…
BY: TIMOTHY C. HAUGHEE AUGUST 19, 2014 Last week, a Florida state court judge in Miami declared that Florida’s workers’ compensation law is unconstitutional because the various benefits available to injured workers under the law…
